AutoTrader.com Selects Akorri BalancePoint for End-to-End Virtualized Infrastructure By VSM News Staff published: Monday, March 17 2008
On-demand Webcast Discusses how Cross-Domain
Performance Management Solves Virtualization Challenges
Littleton, MA, March 17, 2008 - Akorri,
Inc., the leader in cross-domain performance management for the virtualized
data center, today announced that Autotrader.com, the largest online auto classified marketplace, has selected
Akorri's BalancePoint
software to manage
Autotrader.com's virtual environment. BalancePoint was chosen to help Autotrader.com
gain insight across the entire virtual infrastructure, and has enabled IT to proactively
identify performance bottlenecks and plan for growth and consolidation within
their virtual infrastructure.
"Akorri BalancePoint was the
only solution we found in the market that provides a view across the entire
virtualization infrastructure," said Jason Cornell, manager of the Windows
System Group at Autotrader.com. "We
found many tools that looked at one specific level, whether it is the hosts,
guests, or the storage, but Akorri's BalancePoint is the first to pull
everything together in a meaningful way. With BalancePoint we can now provide meaningful
reports for administrators up through to executive management and avoid
performance problems."
"Autotrader.com
heavily utilizes virtualization in production throughout their IT infrastructure
and needed to eliminate VM sprawl, quickly troubleshoot issues, and plan for
future growth. BalancePoint helps by providing end to end visibility,
identifying cross-domain trouble spots, and quickly solving application
performance problems," said Tom Joyce, CEO of Akorri. "We are pleased to help Autotrader.com
manage and optimize their virtual environment with BalancePoint."
In a
new on-demand video webcast
entitled, "Managing Performance in the
Virtualized Data Center" featuring Jason Cornell from Autotrader.com and expert
commentary from Cameron Haight, Gartner
Research Vice President and Tom Joyce, CEO of Akorri, Cornell shares
how Akorri's BalancePoint has helped
Autotrader.com manage its virtual environment.
"The growth of enterprise
virtualization has greatly increased the complexity of the data center," said
Haight. "IT organizations should look for tools that can provide analytic depth
across the entire virtual ecosystem enabling an optimal balance between
performance and utilization in order to realize the business value of IT."
The video webcast is available now ,
on-demand.
About AutoTrader.com
AutoTrader.com, created in 1997 and headquartered in Atlanta, Ga.,
is the Internet's leading auto classifieds marketplace and consumer information
website. AutoTrader.com aggregates in a single location more than 3 million
vehicle listings from 40,000 dealers and 250,000 private owners, which provide
the largest selection of vehicles attracting more than 13 million qualified
buyers each month. Through innovative merchandising products such as multiple
photos and comprehensive search functionality, AutoTrader.com unites buyer and
seller online - dramatically improving the way people research, locate and
advertise vehicles.
AutoTrader.com is a majority-owned subsidiary of
Cox Enterprises. The venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
is also an investor. For more information, please visit www.autotrader.com.
About Akorri
Akorri cross-domain performance management software with advanced analytics
provides automated visibility and analysis across IT silos to help enterprises
fix problems, optimize utilization, and improve performance in the virtualized
data center. Akorri BalancePoint software provides visibility into the root
cause of performance issues through deep drill down into server and storage
resources, and the ability to understand both server and storage
virtualization. BalancePoint enables IT organizations to optimize
performance and capacity to meet service level objectives at the lowest
possible cost. For more information, visit www.akorri.com .
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